The Dine Corporation is both a producer and a user brass couplings. The firm operates 220 days a year and uses the couplings at a steady rate of 50 per day. Couplings can be produced at a rate of 200 per day. Annual storage cost is $2 per coupling, and machine setup cost is $70 per run.
a. Determine the economic run quantity.
b. Approximately how many runs per year will there be?
c. Compute the maximum inventory level.
d. What is the average inventory on hand?
e. Determine the length of the pure consumption portion of the cycle.